The Porcelain Workshop
Subtitle: For a New Grammar of Politics (Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents) (Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents)
Contributors: Noura Wedell (Translator)
Publisher: Semiotext(e)
Published: May 31, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781584350569
Subjects: POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Essays; Political; Philosophy / Political; Philosophy
Description: "In 2004 and 2005, Antonio Negri held ten workshops at the College International de Philosophie in Paris to formulate a new political grammar of the postmodern. Postmodernity, Negri suggests, can be described as a "porcelain workshop": a delicate and fragile construction that could be destroyed through one clumsy act. Looking across twentieth-century history, Negri warns that our inability to anticipate future developments has already placed coming generations in serious jeopardy. In the impassioned debates recounted in this book, Antonio Negri attempts to describe the formation of an alternative political horizon and looks for a way to define the practices and modes of expression that democracy could take."--book jacket.